Category ITU/ICANN

Brandowners Warn Against Cybersquatting, User Confusion From New Internet Domains

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch PARIS – Some think the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers should have moved much faster to introduce new names in the internet to join the likes of .com and .org. Others…

WIPO: Cybersquatting Cases Rise To Record Levels

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Cybersquatting is on the rise, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which published statistics last week on case filings under its international Internet domain name dispute settlement system. The WIPO Arbitration…

Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch
The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet governance in 2008, the tenth anniversary of the private global coordination body for Internet addresses and domain names.

Yet experts also expect security in its different facets to be on the rise in Internet governance debates and point to the further growing interest of nation states in exercising their sovereign governance rights in cyberspace. And it is increasingly the case that governance of the Internet can affect access to online content.

Standards ouverts et accès à la connaissance au menu des discussions du Forum sur la gouvernance de l’Internet

Par Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Les questions liées à la propriété intellectuelle ont été parmi les sujets que les gouvernements avaient évité d’aborder pendant le sommet sur la société de l’information en 2003-2005, qui…

Normas abiertas y acceso al conocimiento, temas abordados en el FGI

Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch RÍO DE JANEIRO- El de las cuestiones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual fue un tema que los gobiernos evitaron tocar durante la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información en 2003 y…

Open Standards, Access To Knowledge Discussed At IGF

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Intellectual property-related issues were a topic avoided by governments during the 2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society, which gave way to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). But at…

Internet Governance Forum: Test Of A New Global Governance Model

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – The debate over whether the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) should grow beyond its no-decisions, dialogue-only capacity was under consideration from the opening of the meeting here Monday. While a…

Change Of Leadership At ICANN As Cerf Makes Way For IP Expert

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Intellectual property and computer law barrister Peter Dengate-Thrush has been elected as new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The former chairman of InternetNZ, the…

IP Community Critical Of Proposals On ICANN Agenda

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Even the “father of the Internet” could not find a solution to the ongoing fight over the so-called Whois database, which allow checks on who has registered Internet domain names. When Vinton Cerf…